The ariki looking straight ahead at us stands close to the beginning of the season of light: Ga1-19 Ga1-20 Ga1-21 Ga1-22 Ga1-23 Ga1-24 (25) Ga1-25 Ga1-26 Ga1-27 Ga1-28 Ga1-29 Ga1-30 No Rei has arrived as yet but 'dawn' is on its way: 259 = 7 * 37 Gb1-7 Ga1-24 261 = 9 * 29 Ariki at Ga1-24 is the last glyph in the season beginning at Gb1-7 (with day 237 + 58 = 295 = 10 * 29.5, the season of the moon). He represents a very dark night (number 261 from Gb1-7). The ghostly henua and the sign at left in Ga1-23 suggests this ariki arrives from the underworld (like the son of the old one). The sign of the 'fist' (of the old one) is at left. In Ab6-42, a similar case - though with a real henua, not an imaginary one - the young one is opening up his gap in front: Ab6-42 ka hora tona henua - kua vaha The location early on side a makes me guess we are looking at somebody who is not a true king. He may be an atariki, a word which I read as a pun: ata means shadow, and Ga1-24 could be a little king in spe, still in the shadow of the old one, meaning the moon, his mother. As I recall it, Barthel somewhere has suggested the reading atariki (eldest son to the king) for this glyph type because he has no head gear. Furthermore, a complex of wordplays centered on atariki must be recognized, which necessitates a detour.

6 * 42 = 252 = 7 * 36. Quite interesting. Because the '7th flame of the sun' stretches to day 420 = 7 * 60.

The 'mother' of Ga1-24 presumably is the moon mago:

Logic says that a spring shark must have a shark as mother.

There is a little sign of what could be a hipu at left center in Gb7-13 and Gb7-16.

The bulging stomach in Gb7-13 is connected with the hipu sign, the whole shark is a single entity. 7 as in moon, the female, is connected with 13, the end of old sun.

The bottom half of Gb6-26 could also be a hipu sign, indicating the connection between old sun and the mother of the new sun:

15 suggests the full moon, one again a sign like hipu - or should we say hua. A fortnight separates winter solstice and the pregnant shark, presumably standing at full moon.

4 zero 9 implies 36, 4 quarters are at left, zero at solstice, and 9 solar months are in front. 6 * 26 = 12 * 13 = 156 (= 150 + 6).

42 * 4 = 168 = 13 * 13 - 1. According to the moon solstice comes 1 night later than Gb7-13.

4 * 24 = 96 = 3 * 32, as if to indicate the young shark with 3 feathers to be born:

I think the rising fish in Gb7-15 is a composite which may refer to the coming year measured both by moon and sun. The baby shark, on the other hand, should be the firmly drawn tao in Gb7-17.

The meaning of the twin tao glyphs (Ga1-22 and Ga1-25) must be different, they are not equally strongly incised and their shape is different.